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Suspense 27 Aug 2013 | 03:34 pm
At this climactic moment, the papyrus has been erased. (From the "Herdsman's Tale", a Middle Kingdom work from ancient Egyptian.)
Royal Genealogy 23 Aug 2013 | 08:49 pm
... royal genealogists can achieve wonderful results through imaginative misrepresentation; vulgar forgery is unnecessary. By the skilful use of Englished forms, by an emphasis on titles as opposed to...
Es war ein Land 19 Aug 2013 | 08:15 pm
Agnes Miegel (1876-1964), Prussian poet, expelled from Königsberg, wrote refugee poems collected in a book called You are Still Part of Me. (Translated by John Koehler and Alfred-Maurice de Zayas. F...
Author Names 17 Aug 2013 | 12:53 am
It occurs me to me that the list of books I've read over the past 31 years can be treated as a source of names. Because the vast majority are from the English-speaking world, the names, too, are a spe...
Wodehouse Again 14 Aug 2013 | 12:41 am
The other day, Spacebar mentioned that she had recently discovered a Wodehouse novel that she hadn't read before: Summer Moonshine. This got me thinking about my own last encounter with the master. A ...
Andorra! 11 Aug 2013 | 06:58 pm
The Andorrans have a bilingual national anthem, one in Catalan and the other in French. Here's the Catalan version: (By Enric Marfany Bons.)
Ancient History on TV 7 Aug 2013 | 04:56 pm
There's been a veritable spate of TV programmes on Ancient Rome lately. Just a week or so ago was Caligula by the lovely Mary Beard. This overlapped historically (and a little bit thematically) with C...
Ajiaco Sailor-Style 4 Aug 2013 | 12:48 am
Right. It's final and authoritative now. For some reason that eludes me, crime fiction authors in foreign tongues incorporate lavish descriptions of local foods and cuisine to - what's that Wodehousia...
Góralu, czy ci nie żal 30 Jul 2013 | 06:21 pm
A Galician song of lamentation on the agony of the émigré, a Goral (hillbilly) forced to leave home to support his family. (Translation from Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forg...
Farewell to Krakow 26 Jul 2013 | 06:13 pm
Mordechai Gebirtig (1877-1942), Yiddish poet and songwriter from Kraków.
